mrpro.algorithms.dcf.dcf_voronoi.ConvexHull

class mrpro.algorithms.dcf.dcf_voronoi.ConvexHull(points, incremental=False, qhull_options=None)

Bases: _QhullUser

Convex hulls in N dimensions.

Added in version 0.12.0.

Parameters:
  • points (ndarray of floats, shape (npoints, ndim)) – Coordinates of points to construct a convex hull from

  • incremental (bool, optional) – Allow adding new points incrementally. This takes up some additional resources.

  • qhull_options (str, optional) – Additional options to pass to Qhull. See Qhull manual for details. (Default: “Qx” for ndim > 4 and “” otherwise) Option “Qt” is always enabled.

points

Coordinates of input points.

Type:

ndarray of double, shape (npoints, ndim)

vertices

Indices of points forming the vertices of the convex hull. For 2-D convex hulls, the vertices are in counterclockwise order. For other dimensions, they are in input order.

Type:

ndarray of ints, shape (nvertices,)

simplices

Indices of points forming the simplical facets of the convex hull.

Type:

ndarray of ints, shape (nfacet, ndim)

neighbors

Indices of neighbor facets for each facet. The kth neighbor is opposite to the kth vertex. -1 denotes no neighbor.

Type:

ndarray of ints, shape (nfacet, ndim)

equations

[normal, offset] forming the hyperplane equation of the facet (see Qhull documentation for more).

Type:

ndarray of double, shape (nfacet, ndim+1)

coplanar

Indices of coplanar points and the corresponding indices of the nearest facets and nearest vertex indices. Coplanar points are input points which were not included in the triangulation due to numerical precision issues.

If option “Qc” is not specified, this list is not computed.

Type:

ndarray of int, shape (ncoplanar, 3)

good

A one-dimensional Boolean array indicating which facets are good. Used with options that compute good facets, e.g. QGn and QG-n. Good facets are defined as those that are visible (n) or invisible (-n) from point n, where n is the nth point in ‘points’. The ‘good’ attribute may be used as an index into ‘simplices’ to return the good (visible) facets: simplices[good]. A facet is visible from the outside of the hull only, and neither coplanarity nor degeneracy count as cases of visibility.

If a “QGn” or “QG-n” option is not specified, None is returned.

Added in version 1.3.0.

Type:

ndarray of bool or None

area

Surface area of the convex hull when input dimension > 2. When input points are 2-dimensional, this is the perimeter of the convex hull.

Added in version 0.17.0.

Type:

float

volume

Volume of the convex hull when input dimension > 2. When input points are 2-dimensional, this is the area of the convex hull.

Added in version 0.17.0.

Type:

float

Raises:
  • QhullError – Raised when Qhull encounters an error condition, such as geometrical degeneracy when options to resolve are not enabled.

  • ValueError – Raised if an incompatible array is given as input.

Notes

The convex hull is computed using the Qhull library.

Examples

Convex hull of a random set of points:

>>> from scipy.spatial import ConvexHull, convex_hull_plot_2d
>>> import numpy as np
>>> rng = np.random.default_rng()
>>> points = rng.random((30, 2))   # 30 random points in 2-D
>>> hull = ConvexHull(points)

Plot it:

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> plt.plot(points[:,0], points[:,1], 'o')
>>> for simplex in hull.simplices:
...     plt.plot(points[simplex, 0], points[simplex, 1], 'k-')

We could also have directly used the vertices of the hull, which for 2-D are guaranteed to be in counterclockwise order:

>>> plt.plot(points[hull.vertices,0], points[hull.vertices,1], 'r--', lw=2)
>>> plt.plot(points[hull.vertices[0],0], points[hull.vertices[0],1], 'ro')
>>> plt.show()

Facets visible from a point:

Create a square and add a point above the square.

>>> generators = np.array([[0.2, 0.2],
...                        [0.2, 0.4],
...                        [0.4, 0.4],
...                        [0.4, 0.2],
...                        [0.3, 0.6]])

Call ConvexHull with the QG option. QG4 means compute the portions of the hull not including point 4, indicating the facets that are visible from point 4.

>>> hull = ConvexHull(points=generators,
...                   qhull_options='QG4')

The “good” array indicates which facets are visible from point 4.

>>> print(hull.simplices)
    [[1 0]
     [1 2]
     [3 0]
     [3 2]]
>>> print(hull.good)
    [False  True False False]

Now plot it, highlighting the visible facets.

>>> fig = plt.figure()
>>> ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>>> for visible_facet in hull.simplices[hull.good]:
...     ax.plot(hull.points[visible_facet, 0],
...             hull.points[visible_facet, 1],
...             color='violet',
...             lw=6)
>>> convex_hull_plot_2d(hull, ax=ax)
    <Figure size 640x480 with 1 Axes> # may vary
>>> plt.show()

References

__init__(points, incremental=False, qhull_options=None)

Methods

__init__(points[, incremental, qhull_options])

add_points(points[, restart])

Process a set of additional new points.

close()

Finish incremental processing.

Attributes

points

vertices

add_points(points, restart=False)

Process a set of additional new points.

Parameters:
  • points (ndarray) – New points to add. The dimensionality should match that of the initial points.

  • restart (bool, optional) – Whether to restart processing from scratch, rather than adding points incrementally.

Raises:

QhullError – Raised when Qhull encounters an error condition, such as geometrical degeneracy when options to resolve are not enabled.

See also

close

Notes

You need to specify incremental=True when constructing the object to be able to add points incrementally. Incremental addition of points is also not possible after close has been called.

close()

Finish incremental processing.

Call this to free resources taken up by Qhull, when using the incremental mode. After calling this, adding more points is no longer possible.